Clinton Fookes

Clinton is an Associate Professor with the Speech, Audio, Image and Video Technologies group within the Science and Engineering Faculty at QUT. He holds a BEng (Aerospace/Avionics), an MBA with a focus on technology innovation and management, and a PhD in the field of computer vision. Clinton actively researches in the fields of computer vision and pattern recognition including video surveillance, biometrics, human-computer interaction, airport security and operations, command and control, and complex systems. Clinton has attracted over $12.5M of cash funding for fundamental and applied research from external competitive sources and has published over 120 internationally peer-reviewed articles. He has been the Director of Research for the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. He is currently the Head of Discipline for Vision & Signal Processing. He is the Technical Director for the “Airports of the Future” collaborative research project. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of other professional organisations including the APRS. He is also an Australian Institute of Policy and Science Young Tall Poppy and an Australian Museum Eureka Prize winner. (Over 1,000 citations and an h-index of 19).